The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-12

for letting her have the hundred a
year."
"Oh, Jonn, Johnl What a break.
downl'' said Nj. Collett. $50 you
weIe trying to follow Peter Finch
through Stony Arabia, and turned back
at the second stepl Here's a brave trav.
TO your Arabia Felix, and leave.sterneI
ways to very different men. Goodbye,
both OF you. I've no voice to talk any
more. I'll think over all you have
said.
He pressed their hands and they left
the room. The old mar was too weak
to speak the next day, and, in three
days after that, he calmly breathed his
last
As soon as the funeral was over, the
will was read by the confidential mar
of business, who had always attended
to Mr.. Collects affairs. The grouy
that sat around him preserved a deea
rous appearance of dlsinterestednesS
and the usual preamble to the vii
having been listened to with breathles:
attention, the mar Of business read the
following in a clear voice:
81 bequeath to my niece, Emma
Briggs, notwithstanding that she
shocked her family by marrying an oil
man, the sum of four thousand pounds.
being fully persuaded that her lost dig
ulty, If she could ever find it again,
would do nothing to provide her with
food, or clothing. or shelter"
John Meade smiled and Peter Flncl
ground his teeth-but in a quiet, re-
spectacle manner
The mar of business went on will
his reading.
"Haying always held the opinion
that women should be rendered a "a.
tional and independent being-and
having duly considered the fact that
society practically denies the right Of
earning her own living-I hereby be
queath to Mary Sutton, the only daugh.
ter Of my old friend, Fred. Sutton, the
sum of ten thousand pound, which VIII
enable her to marry, or to remain sin
gle, as she may prefer"
John Meade gave a prodigious start
upon hearing this, and Peter Finch
ground his teeth a~gain-but in a man
mer hardly respectable. Both, how
ever, by a violent effort, kept silent.
The mar Of business went on with
his reading.
II have paid some attention to the
character OF my nephew, john Meade,
and have been grleved to find him much
possessed with a feeling of philanthro-
ply, and with a general preference for
whatever is noble and true over what
ever is base and false. As these ten.
denotes are by no lean such as can
advance him in the world, | bequeath
him the sum OF ten thousand pounds
hoping that he will thus be kept out OF
the workhouse, and be enabled to paint
his great histor cal picture, which, as
yet, he has only talked about.
LAS for my other nephew, Peter
Finch, he views all things in SO saga
cious and selfish a way, and is so Ger
tain to get on in life, that l should
only insult him by offering an aid which
he does not require; yet, from his affec-
Tomato uncle, and entirely as a testi-
mony OF admiration for his mental
acuteness, 1 venture to hope that he
will accept a bequest OF Ave hundred
pounds towards the completion of his
extensive library of law-books."
How Peter Finch stormed and called
names-how John Meade broke into d
delirium OF joy-how Mary Sutton
cried first. and then laughed, and then
cried and laughed together-all these
matters / shall not attempt to describe.
Mary Sutton is now Mrs. John Meade;
and her husband has actually begun
the great historical picture. Peter
Finch has taken to discounting bills
and bringing actions on them. and
Drives about in his brougham already.